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Abstract: Papers collected by H.H. Bancroft for his history of California. Primarily Alviso
family documents relating to the sale of cattle, tallow and hides and to early government in San Jose.
Also included are miscellaneous papers of Juan B.R. Cooper, M.G. Vallejo, Thomas O. Larkin and James
McKinlay.

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish

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These papers, collected by H. H. Bancroft for his history of California, consist mainly of Alviso family
documents, many of them relating to the sale of cattle, tallow and hides, and to early government in San
Jose. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of John B. R. Cooper, Mariano G. Vallejo, Thomas O.
Larkin and James McKinlay.

Bancroft's numbering and arrangement of the papers, roughly chronological, have been retained. A list of
the documents is included, followed by a list of correspondents, addressees (other than members of the
Alviso family), and/or signers of documents.

Documents relating to Ignacio Alviso's request for a house, including his original
request, annotations by J. B. Alvarado and José Ramón Estrada, grant of
request by Alvarado; further request by Alviso for more land; note of grant of request by
Antonio Buelna; certification of copy by M. Leavenworth, recorder for Santa Clara Co., July
1867. With this: translation of the above into English by J. Alonzo Forbes, certified by J. M.
Billings, notary public.

folder 53.

Arnaz, José de, 1820-

Scope and Content Note

Receipt for hides, Dec. 20, 1841.

folder 54.

Howard, William Davis Merry, 1819-1856

Scope and Content Note

Receipt for hides, June 9, 1842.

folder 55.

Aguirre, José Antonio, 1793-1854

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Ignacio Alviso, July 22, 1842, stating he has just arrived in San Francisco, and is
sending various things by the vaquero.

folder 56.

Aguirre, José Antonio, 1813-1878

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Ignacio Alviso, July 23, 1842, stating he is sending merchandise on the launch.

folder 57.

Vioget, Jean Jacques, 1799-1855

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, Aug. 25, 1842, for tallow and hides.

folder 58.

Smith, Ira

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, Nov. 5, 1842, for wheat.

There is no no. 59.

folder 60.

Davis, William Heath, 1822-1909

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, Aug. 24, 1843, for tallow and hides.

folder 61.

Davis, William Heath, 1822-1909

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, July 30, 1844, for hides.

There is no no. 62.

folder 63.

Howard, William Davis Merry, 1819-1856

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, Aug. 28, 1844, for hides.

folder 64.

Célis, Eulogio, d. 1868

Scope and Content Note

Account with Ignacio Alviso, Sept. 19, 1842.

folder 65.

Thompson, Alpheus Basil, 1795-1869

Scope and Content Note

Account, Nov. 14, 1844, with Ignacio Alviso.

folder 66.

Micheltorena, Manuel, d. 1853

Scope and Content Note

Communication, [Nov. 1844], re. a beginning insurrection in the Cañada de San Miguel.
Copy, in hand of M. G. Vallejo.

Three promissory notes, Sept. 8, 1847. Printed forms filled in, signed for Alviso by Father
Suárez del Real, with note of receipt of payment in 1848 by Eulogio de
Célis.

folder 92.

Davis, Pedro

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, Sept. 13, 1847, for cattle.

folder 93-94.

Paty & Co.

Scope and Content Note

Account with Agustín Alviso, Sept. 21, 1847, marked cancelled, and signed by J.
Alexander Yoell for the company. With note on verso by Antonio María Suñol
that Alviso owes him seven pesos and 4 reales.

There are no nos. 95-96.

folder 97.

Promissory note, Oct. 5, 1857

Scope and Content Note

Printed form filled in, with signature removed, witnessed by Josiah Belden. On verso, order to
pay Peter Davidson, signed by John Paty, Oct. 5, 1847.

folder 98.

Suñol, Antonio María, 1800-1865

Scope and Content Note

Promissory note to Paty & Co., signed also by James William Weekes, alcalde.

folder 99.

Weekes, James William, 1813-1881

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Ignacio Alviso, Nov. 16, 1847, ordering him to proceed with an unnamed case, and to
apprehend the culprit if possible. Writing as alcalde of San Jose.

folder 100-101.

Missing.

folder 102-103.

Marsh, John, 1799-1856

Scope and Content Note

Receipts to Robert Livermore, Apr. 21, 1848. 2 items.

folder 104.

Thompson, Alpheus Basil, 1795-1869

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, Dec. 30, 1848, to J. A. Forbes on behalf of the estates of Ignacio and Domingo
Alviso.

folder 105.

Ware, William, d. 1868

Scope and Content Note

Order to pay bearer, Feb. 3, 1849.

folder 106.

López, Cesario

Scope and Content Note

Promissory note to Robert Livermore, Mar. 8, 1849.

folder 107-108.

Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Ignacio Ezquer, May 9, 1849, re. sale of land in Monterey.

folder 109-110.

Gonzales Rubio, José Maria de Jesus, 1803-1875

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Jacinto Rodríguez, July 23, 1849, thanking him for not authorizing the
marriage of Henry Burton to María del Amparo Ruíz, she being Catholic, and
commenting on Richard B. Mason's order re. marriages in which one or both parties are
Catholics.

Summons to J.B.R. Cooper, Apr. 1826?, in answer to complaint by Keerolf &
Company, of Manila, for non-payment of debts.

folder 174.

Welsh, William

Scope and Content Note

Letter to J.B.R. Cooper, undated, re. cattle.

folder 175.

Carmen, Juan del

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, undated, to Ignacio Martínez.

There is no no. 176.

folder 177.

Spence, David, 1798-1875

Scope and Content Note

Letter, undated, requesting that the bearer of the letter, James Watson, be given what he wants
in merchandise.

folder 178.

Rice, George P

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Capt. Cooper, undated, enclosing a permit for two barrels of aguardiente.

folder 179.

Duran, Narciso, 1776-1846

Scope and Content Note

Letter, undated, re. stones that could not be loaded on the launch.

folder 180.

Early printing item; removed for separate cataloging.

folder 181.

Description of property in San Francisco, undated

folder 182.

Allen, Robert, 1812-1886

Scope and Content Note

Consent for J.B.R. Cooper to lease land to Mercer, undated, witnessed by Alonzo C. Wakeman.

folder 183.

Letter, undated

folder 184.

List of the guard of honor, undated, in M. G. Vallejo's hand.

folder 185.

Esténaga, Thomas Eleuterio, ca. 1790-1847

Scope and Content Note

Letter to J.B.R. Cooper, undated, stating the mission had given grain to Cirilo Clebnicoff.

folder 186.

Gil y Taboada, Luis Gonzaga, 1773-1833

Scope and Content Note

Letter, undated, sending an account.

folder 187.

Pell, E. Ward

Scope and Content Note

Description of land in San Francisco, undated, addressed to T. O. Larkin.

folder 188.

Cooper, John Bautista Rogers, 1792-1872

Scope and Content Note

Draft of letter to James Sturgis, undated

folder 189.

Cooper, John Bautista Rogers, 1792-1872

Scope and Content Note

Letter to Cirilo Clebnicoff, undated, re. contract for otter skins.

folder 190.

Peralta, Ignacio, 1790-

Scope and Content Note

List of supplies issued at Mission San Jose, also signed by Father Dur n. 1829? [For
date, cf. Vallejo Documents, v. 20: 127].

folder 191.

Part of letter containing address only, to Juan Abello.

folder 192-193.

Form to be used in drawing up a contract.

folder 194.

Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802-1858

Scope and Content Note

Summary statement of receipts and expenditures. Form to be used in drawing up accounts for the U.
S. Navy.

folder 195.

Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802-1858

Scope and Content Note

Abstract of expenditures ... Form to be used in drawing up accounts for the U. S. Navy.

folder 196-197.

Recéta infalible para el golgojo, undated

folder 198.

Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1807-1890

Scope and Content Note

Letter to his brother, undated, concerning livestock. Incomplete.

folder 199.

Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1807-1890

Scope and Content Note

Draft of agreement, undated, with his brother, concerning cattle.

folder 200.

Accounts, undated

folder 201.

Map, showing unsold sections of land. Sonoma Co.? undated

folder 202-203.

Alvisu, Nicolás and Buelna, Joaquín

Scope and Content Note

Verses, referring to Joaquín Solis. [1829?]

folder 204.

Account of expenditures in building a house, undated

folder 205.

Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1807-1890

Scope and Content Note

Draft of letter to the governor re. oath of allegiance to the government, ca. 1836.

folder 206.

Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1807-1890

Scope and Content Note

Draft of letter, undated, re. payment of a debt.

folder 207.

U. S. [Commission for Ascertaining and Settling Private Land Claims in
California]

Scope and Content Note

Decree of confirmation to José de Jesús Vallejo for Bolsa de San Cayetano,
undated Copy. Original signed by Alpheus Felch, Thompson Campbell and R. Aug. Thompson.

folder 208.

Account for days worked, undated

folder 209-210.

McKinlay, James, 1803-1875

Scope and Content Note

Statement, Jan. 29, 1847, re. his arrest at the hands of Lt. Maddox in Monterey, and request for
an investigation of the matter.

folder 211.

Plan of Juan Bandini's house in San Diego. undated

folder 212.

List of Debts owing to Talbot H. Green, undated

folder 213.

Hawley, James

Scope and Content Note

Specification of the carpenter's work for a house situated in the Mission of San Jose.
undated

folder 214.

Promissory note, signed by William Lynch and James Hawley, undated

folder 215.

Pardo, Roberto

Scope and Content Note

Receipt, undated for goods from San Juan Bautista Mission.

folder 216.

Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882

Scope and Content Note

Letter to José de Jesús Vallejo, ca. 1839?, manifesting surprise at
contents of Vallejo's letter, and stating he has instructed the alcalde of Monterey to suspend
his order until such time as he, Alvarado, and Vallejo can discuss the matter.

folder 217.

Johnston, Elliott

Scope and Content Note

Letter to James McKinlay, stating he is leaving for San Francisco, and taking leave of McKinlay,
undated

folder 218.

Draft of a letter containing instructions for settlement of accounts in California.
undated

Letter to James McKinlay, undated, sending copy of letter from Mrs. McKinlay, mother of James
McKinlay, concerning the death of her son Peter. Mr. Bruce also offers his services to help
settle the estate.